Re: [GENERAL] book for postgresql

2004-02-19 Thread Al Hulaton
Stephen Howard wrote: also, as much as i really like o'reilly books in general, i find the index in this one quite lacking. Yeah, I agree, and I work with one of the authors and he says the same thing! (long story, not worth it) In its stead, you can search and read the entire book at our webs

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options

2004-02-19 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
On Feb 19, 2004, at 1:24 PM, Simon Windsor wrote: Hi   I am used to using Oracle (15 years) and MySQL(5 years), but I am planning to move an existing application from MySQL to Postgres. The reasons are very simple,   • New requirements means we need views, or a significant re-write • Bett

[GENERAL] Replication options

2004-02-19 Thread Simon Windsor
Hi   I am used to using Oracle (15 years) and MySQL(5 years), but I am planning to move an existing application from MySQL to Postgres. The reasons are very simple,   New requirements means we need views, or a significant re-write Better query/index performance essential.

Re: [GENERAL] backup and restore questions

2004-02-19 Thread Richard Huxton
On Thursday 19 February 2004 17:41, Sally Sally wrote: > I had a few questions > concerning the backup/restore process for pg. Please don't post HTML if you can avoid it. > class=RTE>  > 1) Is it possible to dump data onto an existing > database that contains data (assumning the schema of both ar

Re: [GENERAL] Select for update, locks and transaction levels

2004-02-19 Thread Keary Suska
on 2/16/04 10:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said: > I am trying to gather stats about how many times a resource in our web > app is viewed, i.e. just a COUNT. There are potentially millions of > resources within the system. > > I thought of two methods: > > 1.An extra column in the re

Re: [GENERAL] backup and restore questions

2004-02-19 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Sally Sally wrote: > I had a few questions concerning the backup/restore process for pg. >   > 1) Is it possible to dump data onto an existing database that contains data > (assumning the schema of > both are the same). Has anyone done this? I am thinking of this in order to

Re: [GENERAL] wishlist: dynamic log volume control

2004-02-19 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Ed L. wrote: > On Thursday February 19 2004 9:13, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > > The 7.3.4 doc (doc/html/runtime-config.html) does say the > > > log_connections option can only be set at server start or in the > > > postgresql.conf configuration file. That seems a little am

Re: [GENERAL] backup and restore questions

2004-02-19 Thread V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems]
Dear Sally Sally , I had a few questions concerning the backup/restore process for pg. 1) Is it possible to dump data onto an existing database that contains data (assumning the schema of both are the same). Has anyone done this? I am thinking of this in order to expediate the data load proces

Re: [GENERAL] Best replication options

2004-02-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
rserv doesn't work with 7.4 AFAIK. erserver seems to; I haven't actually used it in production, although I'm about to. dbmirror has had reports of success. We have several clients running erserver w/ 7.4, with another deploying this coming weekend, and haven't had any reports of problems ... W

Re: [GENERAL] Replication

2004-02-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Mammoth is something you would have to ask Joshua Drake about. Don't know anything about it. Just FYI: There is very detailed information about Mammoth Replicator located here: http://www.commandprompt.com/entry.lxp?lxpe=304 Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Is pgReplication ready for 7.4 yet? And

[GENERAL] postgresql & unicode

2004-02-19 Thread Pavel aka crazy
hi, all! how can i use unicode in postgresql tables? "createdb -E UNICODE dbname" work correctly, but when i put data and then read it i see only garbage instead cyrillic letters. what i do wrong? -- FreeLSD Best regards, Pavel aka crazy Linux Registered User #303117 ---

Re: [GENERAL] Support.

2004-02-19 Thread Al Hulaton
Louis P. Boudville wrote: 1.Where can I get end user support for PostgreSQL ? You could use this mailing list, the #postgresql channel on the Freenode IRC server or do a search for commercial Postgres support. The techdocs on the Postgresql.org site would be my first stop, and you can also

[GENERAL] backup and restore questions

2004-02-19 Thread Sally Sally
I had a few questions concerning the backup/restore process for pg.   1) Is it possible to dump data onto an existing database that contains data (assumning the schema of both are the same). Has anyone done this? I am thinking of this in order to expediate the data load process   2) I read that wh

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL on Windows

2004-02-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jan Wieck wrote: > John Small wrote: > > > I want to use PostgreSQL on a project that will have to run on > > both Linux and Windows. But using cygwin is not a viable option. > > > > Does the dbExpert version of PostgreSQL run natively under Windows? > > Last time I checked the dbExperts versio

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL on Windows

2004-02-19 Thread Jan Wieck
John Small wrote: I want to use PostgreSQL on a project that will have to run on both Linux and Windows. But using cygwin is not a viable option. Does the dbExpert version of PostgreSQL run natively under Windows? Last time I checked the dbExperts version was the cygwin port, bundled with a stri

Re: [GENERAL] Edit Tables...

2004-02-19 Thread Richard Huxton
On Thursday 19 February 2004 15:50, Denny Morais wrote: > Hi, > > I have a software that use a postgresql database. I am using SuSE 8.2 and > would like to edit the program tables... Is there any software to do that? > > I have never used postgresql before, so I am sorry for the newbie question > a

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM Question

2004-02-19 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Alex wrote: > Hi, > just a few questions on the Vaccum > > I run a vacuum analyze on the database every night as part of a > maintenance job. > > During the day I have a job that loads 30-70,000 records into two tables > (each 30-70k). > This job runs 2-3 times a day; the fi

Re: [GENERAL] wishlist: dynamic log volume control

2004-02-19 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The issue is that you can't set log_connections from psql. Should we > improve the doc wording? I think the only thing missing is that in the introduction to section 16.4, where it says "The configuration file is reread whenever the postmaster process r

Re: [GENERAL] Inner join question

2004-02-19 Thread Nick Barr
Randall Skelton wrote: Greetings all, I am trying to do what should be a simple join but the tables are large and it is taking a long, long time. I have the feeling that I have stuffed up something in the syntax. Here is what I have: telemetry=> select (tq1.timestamp = tq2.timestamp) as time

Re: [GENERAL] Inner join question

2004-02-19 Thread Jan Poslusny
Hi, try this on psql console: explain analyze select tq1.*, tq2.* from cal_quat_1 tq1, cal_quat_2 tq2 where tq1.timestamp = tq2.timestamp and tq1.timestamp > '2004-01-12 09:47:56. +0'::timestamp with time zone and tq1.timestamp < '2004-01-12 09:50:44.7187 +0'::timestamp with time zone order by

Re: [GENERAL] wishlist: dynamic log volume control

2004-02-19 Thread Ed L.
On Thursday February 19 2004 9:13, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > The 7.3.4 doc (doc/html/runtime-config.html) does say the > > log_connections option can only be set at server start or in the > > postgresql.conf configuration file. That seems a little ambiguous on > > the SIGHUP'ability of that opt

Re: [GENERAL] Big Tables vs. many Tables vs. many Databases

2004-02-19 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 01:44 AM 2/19/2004 +0100, Dirk Olbertz wrote: I'm currently about to redesign a database which you could compare with a database for managing a library. Now this solution will not only manage one library, but 100 to 500 of them. Currently, eg. all the data about the inventory (books) is held in